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The Scot in New France (1535-1880)


The "Frasers" of 1759 and of 1775 readily courted danger or death in that great duel which was to graft progress and liberty on that loved emblem of Canada, the pride of its forests—the Maple Tree. If at times, one feels pained at the ferocity which marked the conflict and which won for Fraser’s Highlanders at Quebec, the name of Les Sauvages d’Ecosse, t one feels relieved, seeing that the meeting was inevitable, that, the sturdy sons of Caledonia in Levis’ heroic Grenadiers,* did find a foe worthy of their steel. Scotchmen, on the field of Ste. Foye, in deadly encounter


the said meeting to be held on the second Thursday in the month of May next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, in such place in the City of Ottawa, as will then be designated.

To be the Chief of the Province of Quebec:

The Honorable JOHN FRASER DE BERRY, Esquire, one of the members of the Legislative Council of the said Province, &c., being the fifty-eighth descendant. of Jules de Berry, a rich and powerful lord (seigneur) who feasted sumptuously the Emperor Charlemagne, and his numerous suite, at his castle in Normandy, in the eighth century.

II. For the following electoral division:

LAUZON,—THOMAS FRASER, Esquire, farmer, of Point Levis.
KENNEBEC,—SIMON FRASER, Esquire, of St. Croix.
DE LA DURANTAYE,—ALEXANDER FRASER, Esquire, farmer, of St Valier.
LES LAURENTIDES,—WILLLAM FRASER, Esquire, of Lake St. John, Chicoutimi.
GRANDVILLE, —JEAN ETIENNE FRASER, Esquire, Notary.
GREEN ISLAND, STADACONA,—ALEXANDER FRASER, Esquire, Notary, St. Roch, Quebec.

The meeting having voted thanks to the president and secretary, then adjourned. ALEX. FRASER. (President)

OMER FRASER, Secretary. (Quebec Morning Choronicle, February 8, 1868.")

t The kilted Highlanders of 1759 were popularly known among the peasants as "Les petites Jupes." Most exaggerated stories were circulated as to their ferocity. The following was one of the most accredited opinions :—.-"The Highlanders would neither give nor take quarter; they were so nimble that no man could catch them, so nobody could escape them, no one had a chance against their broad swords. With the ferocity natural to savages they made no prisoners, and spared neither man, woman, nor child."

* A curious hand to hand fight between the Highlanders and French Grenadiers took place on the 28th April, 1760, at Dumont’s Mill, on the site adjoining Mr. J. W. Dunscomb’s house, on the St. Foye Road.


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